School news from the Fox Chapel area

Fox Chapel Area School District’s Fairview Elementary School third-grader Nora Diven won second place in the third-grade division of the Pittsburgh area U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s annual Earth Day Poster Contest.

The theme of this year’s contest was “Invest in Our Planet. What will you do?”

Students were invited to design posters featuring their favorite ways to restore the Earth and its precious resources. Nora’s poster encourages people to “make our earth a better place” by planting more trees and flowers, and picking up trash and throwing it away.

The contest was open to elementary students from NETL’s laboratory sites in Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Oregon.

The first-, second-, third- and fourth-place winning posters were sent to the U.S. Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C., for display.

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Fox Chapel Area School District was named among the 2023 Best Communities for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation.

This is the 11th year that the district has received this designation.

It is one of 123 in the state and one of 830 school districts in the nation chosen for this honor that recognizes outstanding commitment to music education.

The NAMM Foundation is a nonprofit that celebrates and promotes the intrinsic value of music education.

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The Fox Chapel Area High School Class of 1973 will celebrate its 50th Class reunion this fall.

The event will be 6 to 10 p.m. Sept. 2 at Riverside Landing, 12 Washington Avenue, Oakmont.

Cost is $50 before July 1 and then increases to $70.

Classmates are asked to share the word with any potential invitees.

To register, visit myevent.com/FoxChapel1973Reunion

For more, email fc73reunion@gmail.com.